Chingford’s unbeaten start to their league campaign came to an end during a crazy six minute spell on the Ruislip hill. With the visitors exerting pressure right from the off, Chingford put pressure on the home sides defence, and for the first 15 minutes of the game Chingford looked be the team that would score first. With game being played firmly in the Ruislip half, the ball squeezed out of a tackle and the home team attacked from deep running the length of field to register a converted try. Directly from the restart Chingford rushed up in defence, a gap was created and Ruislip’s speedy backs exploited it, to score another converted try. This was then repeated minutes later and during this 6 minute period Chingford had gifted the home side 21 points, and even though Chingford had had much of the territory the failed score in the first half. Playing down the slope and 21 points behind, Chingford put on early pressure and were rewarded with a try to Mathew Hastings, Luke Campbell failed to add the extras from wide out. It was all Chingford, and as happened in the first half as soon as Chingford got close Ruislip gave away a penalty, and after Campbell had converted 2 attempts, the referee finally sent a Ruislip player to the sin bin. After numerous warnings to the Ruislip players in both halves, the referee should have been stronger, but was intimidated by the vocal home support, and when he finally did show the yellow card was greeted by some interesting comments. With Chingford pushing hard they had a perfectly good try disallowed, that would have brought the game to within 3 points, and the home side were on the ropes. Another 2 breakaway tries late in the second half meant Ruislip had the 2 points, finally winning 33 points to 11. “It was a very disappointing result, Ruislip out played us and showed greater skill at striking with every opportunity. We were not in the game physically or mentally. It is a wake up call, which thankfully has come early and the boys need to suck it up and acknowledge were we fell short as a team. The lesson is obvious – forget about past deeds and focus on what needs to be done today – we didn’t have any focus for the game, players were still living off last week. Its done now and we move on, we will get stronger from this set back.” , said Stefan Smith. Debut 1st Team: Chris Moore and Ted Pike Players Player of the Day: Steve Piper